Company Description

While the energy transition to renewable energy is on its way and has been significantly accelerated by the current pandemic, our life heavily relies on energy, food, materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals produced by traditional large-scale industries. If we want to make a real impact on the environment and our society, transitioning these industries to a greener future is paramount.

Hexxcell’s mission is to develop and deploy digital technology to enable and accelerate the process industry’s transition to cleaner, more efficient and profitable operations.

We are a fast-growing company based in Hammersmith, London. The company span-out from Imperial College London acquiring technology developed in a large research project which aimed at improving energy efficiency in oil refineries and cutting their greenhouse gas emissions which accounts for 2.5% of global anthropogenic carbon emissions. We are now a team of passionate and dedicated chemical, mechanical and process systems engineers with a knack for data science and software development.

We developed the first Hybrid Digital Twin for industrial thermal systems incorporating physics-based models with Artificial Intelligence which our Blue Chip customers are currently using to assess, predict and improve energy efficiency and sustainability of their production plants. This long-lasting positive impact in our customer’s operations enables them to boosted production, saved millions of USD and cut MMTons of CO2 emissions.

Role Description

Are you a gritty coder with a passion for solving challenging problems and making real-world impact? We are looking for a Back-end Python Developer to join our small but talented team of engineers. You will be working closely with the font-end and commercial team and contribute to the success of our software. Hexxcell Studio™ is used by Blue Chip companies around the world to solve crucial industrial problems and cut carbon emissions. The job involves devising, implementing and maintaining the back-end architecture.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the back-end development of Hexxcell software.
Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code.
Ensure that software release deadlines are met.
Understand and translate functional requirements into technical requirements.
Implement technical requirements into code.
Support testing and deployment of new products and features.
Participate in code reviews.

Qualifications/Skills

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
4+ years of experience in building robust, scalable, and efficient backend solutions.
2+ years of back-end development experience with FastAPI or Flask.
Experience with testing in Python.
Familiarity with SQL database experience.
Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
Knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
Intrinsic desire to continually improve, learn & grow.
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD),
CI/CD pipelines

Desired/Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or related field).

• Experience in development cycles and operation (DevOps)

• Experience in handling large data sets.

• Experience in developing application for data visualisation/analysis.

• Experience in industrial software development

• Passionate about agile methodologies

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